Problems inheriting PATH from parent fixed in Cygwin 20

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Subject: Problems inheriting PATH from parent fixed in Cygwin 20

From: Milton Hankins {64892} <mlh@swl.msd.ray.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:10:17 -0500 (EST)

An unusual behavior of the bash shell seems to have been fixed in Cygwin
20, but I didn't see a mention of it in the README. Maybe it doesn't
matter.
After using Cygwin 19.1 for some time, I noticed that bash would never
inherit its PATH variable from the NT command interpreter process; it
would always read it from the registry (as set by the System Properties >
Environment control applet). This appears to have been fixed; modifying
the PATH variable from the Command Prompt window and invoking bash shows
that PATH is indeed inherited.
I hope this has been useful to someone. I don't subscribe to this list,
so if you have questions, email me directly. (And yes, I did check the
FAQ, the readme, and the mailing list archives.)
Cygwin is a really great product. If you can't run Linux, it's the next
best thing. :)
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Milton L. Hankins -=- <mlh@swl.msd.ray.com>
Software Engineer, Raytheon Systems Company -=- RayComNet 7-225-4728
http://amasts.msd.ray.com/~mlh -=- John 14:12 ><>
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